Journal Article
FDICIA's discount window provisions
Todd, Walker F. (1992-12)
A description of the evolution of supervisory policy toward failing banks over the past two decades, with particular emphasis on the modifications to Federal Reserve Banks' discount window administration as set forth by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 (FDICIA).
Economic Commentary , Issue Dec

Working Paper
Lessons of the past and prospects for the future in lender of last resort theory
Todd, Walker F. (1988)
A history of the changes in the theory of the role of the lender of last resort--as a source of solvency versus liquidity support--and a discussion of the distinction between necessity and convenience (the American and European versions of lender of last resort theory) in mounting rescue operations through the central bank.
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 8805

Journal Article
Bank receivership and conservatorship
Todd, Walker F. (1994-10)
A history of regulatory and statutory responses to failing banks, with special focus on changes since 1987 affecting receiverships, conservatorships, and bridge banks. The author argues that some of these changes, including depositor preference legislation enacted in 1993, have had unintended and still-uncertain consequences.
Economic Commentary , Issue Oct

Working Paper
Similarities and dissimilarities in the collapses of three state- chartered private deposit insurance funds
Todd, Walker F. (1994)
An analysis of the collapse of the Rhode Island Share and Deposit Indemnity Corp., focusing on distinguishing the elements of failure that it shared with other large state-chartered deposit insurance funds (principally the Ohio and Maryland funds) from those that were unique to Rhode Island.
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 9411

Journal Article
Lessons from the collapse of three state-chartered private deposit insurance funds
Todd, Walker F. (1994-05)
An analysis of the collapse of the Rhode Island Share and Deposit Indemnity Corporation, distinguishing the elements of failure and resolution that it shared with other large state-chartered deposit insurance funds--principally the Ohio and Maryland funds--from those that were unique to Rhode Island.
Economic Commentary , Issue May

Journal Article
Developing country lending and current banking conditions
Todd, Walker F. (1988-04)
An examination of the evolutionary stages of the debt problem in developing countries, with a discussion of how U.S. banks and financial markets have adjusted to accommodate it and some proposed solutions to the problem.
Economic Review , Volume 24 , Issue Q II , Pages 27-36

Conference Paper
Lessons of the past and prospects for the future in lender of last resort theory
Todd, Walker F. (1988)
Proceedings , Paper 215

Journal Article
Aggressive uses of Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code
Todd, Walker F. (1986-07)
An examination of the aggressive uses of the corporate bankruptcy code from an economic and historical perspective, and some implications for economic competition in the United States.
Economic Review , Issue Q III , Pages 20-26

Working Paper
The Federal Reserve Board before Marriner Eccles (1931-1934)
Todd, Walker F. (1994)
A history of the evolution of political economy models in the early 1930s--crucial years of change in the supervision and regulation of the financial industry--outlining the policies of the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations, the change of focus in the Federal Reserve Board from corporate-statist economic initiatives to an orthodox Keynesian outlook, and the push toward centralizing the monetary powers of the Federal Reserve System at the Board.
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 9405

Working Paper
An insider's view of the political economy of the too big to fail doctrine
Todd, Walker F.; Thomson, James B. (1990)
An explanation of the relationship between interbank exposure and the too big to fail doctrine, with an examination of the interbank exposure of U.S. banks between March 1984 and March 1990.
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 9017